UN investigators examining 20 alleged massacres in Syria say regime forces carried out six of the eight confirmed atrocities. Meanwhile, al-Nusra Front is ‪imposing harsh, Taliban-style regulations‬ in areas under...

Iraqis in the city of Um Qasr sabotaged border markers along their country's border with Kuwait after claiming the frontier had been moved during UN-supervised repairs to the border demarcation...

The Israeli Army has launched an operation to plant fast-growing non-native eucalyptus trees along Gaza's border with Israel. The woodland is apparently intended to act as a screen against terrorist...

This week on LinkAsia, China's new president puts a damper on the Party, Vietnam is in the market for a new constitution, South Korea's new president is stuck in gridlock,...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) China's annual National People's Congress just completed its first week, and there are signs that this Congress is going to be different from the boring meetings of recent...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) Xi Jinping, China's new president, is waging a war against official ostentation. He is making modesty on the part of officials at all levels his signature issue. And...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) Vietnam's Communist Party has stated its desire to change the country's constitution, written in 1992. Reformers hope it will address issues of property ownership and corruption. LinkAsia speaks...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) Although Vietnam's Communist Party has promised to reform the country's constitution, it doesn't mean that they are ready to embrace democracy. LinkAsia's Nguyen Qui Duc reports that the...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, has a long road ahead. She needs parliament to green light her cabinet nominees, but they are being held up because the...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) North Korea has threatened to throw out the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. South Korea has responded by promising retaliation against any aggression. And...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) March 11th marks two years since Japan's devastating triple disaster of a massive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that left 20,000 people dead or missing. LinkAsia's Toshi Maeda...

(LinkAsia: 3/8/13) Japanese horror film director Hideo Nakata is best known for films in which characters are killed by an unseen force or haunted by a creepy presence. His newest...

After the US invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban regime, and a new government was installed, Afghan women have been able to enter job sectors that were previously exclusive to...

(LinkAsia Bulletin: 3/8/13) "DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland announcement: We officially declare that any agreement on non-aggression between North and South...is totally nullified." LinkAsia has translated...